The SEI helps advance software engineering principles and practices and serves as a national resource in software engineering, computer security, and process improvement. The SEI works closely with defense and government organizations, industry, and academia to continually improve software-intensive systems. Its core purpose is to help organizations improve their software engineering capabilities and develop or acquire the right software, defect free, within budget and on time, every time.

Information Security

The SEI's Networked Systems Survivability Program builds on the experience of the CERT Coordination Center to offer training in the areas of creating and managing computer security incident response teams (CSIRTs), responding to and analyzing security incidents, and improving network security to system administrators, managers, and incident response teams.